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The DICE Summit in pictures (photo gallery)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2012
Updated June 18, 2025
3 min

Here’s our photo gallery from the DICE Summit 2012. This year’s conference drew more than 700 game industry luminaries to a wide variety of talks on the art and science of making video games.

dice todd howard 2 — Bethesda's Todd Howard gave the opening keynote at DICE.

dice 20 year club — The 20-year company club: Frank Pearce (Blizzard), Ted Price (Insomniac), and Mike Capps (Epic)

dice atari guys — Atari veterans Ed Rotberg, Owen Rubin, and Rich Adam

dice bastion guys — Greg Kasavin and Amir Rao (Super Giant Games) get an award for Bastion.

dice chainsaw — Gears of War 3's Lancer rifle (with chainsaw bayonet) at Epic Games' party

dice daniel kim — Daniel Kim, CEO of Nexon America

dice denny thorley — Denny Thorley, CEO of Day 1 Studios

dice dowling — Robert Bowling of Infinity Ward

dice ed logg mark cerny — Ed Logg, creator of Asteroids, got the lifetime achievement award.

dice felicia day — Felicia Day, star of The Guild and Dragon Age Redemption

dice frank pearce — Frank Pearce of Blizzard Entertainment (he won't talk about Titan)

dice glen ballard — Glen Ballard, six-time Grammy winner

dice hirsberg douche — Douche move: Eric Hirshberg replays criticism for Call of Duty Elite from Neils Hansen

dice hirshberg — Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, explains why COD Elite is not a douche move.

dice isaac gilmore — Former Navy Seal Team Seven member Isaac Gilmore speaks about how to learn from failure.

dice jaffe — David Jaffe (Eat Sleep Play) says a story can get in the way of good gameplay.

dice jay mohr pajamas — Comedian Jay Mohr closed the Interactive Achievement Awards in his undies and robe.

dice jay mohr — Jay Mohr hosted the Interactive Achievement Awards for the 7th year in a row.

dice julian eggebrecht — Julian Eggebrecht (TouchFactor)

dice limbo guys — Arnt Jensen and Dino Patti of Playdead, the developer of Limbo

dice martin rae — Martin Rae, president of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences

dice matias — Matias Myllyrinne, managing director of Remedy Entertainment

dice michael pachter — Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter

dice min kim — Min Kim, head of live games at Nexon and new AIAS board member

dice morgan webb adam sessler — Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler of G4

dice perrin kaplan — Perrin Kaplan of Zebra Partners, looking like she's saying "Whatever"

dice rich hilleman — Rich Hilleman of Electronic Arts talked about world peace through games.

dice schell perry — Jesse Schell of Schell Games and David Perry of Gaikai

dice seamus blackley — Seamus Blackley of Innovative Leisure

dice sefton hill — Sefton Hill of Rocksteady

dice sessler warren — Jamin Warren of Kill Screen Magazine looks at Adam Sessler's ankles.

dice shu yoshida — Shu Yoshida (head of Sony's game studios) shows off his PlayStation Vita.

dice tim sweeney — Tim Sweeney of Epic Games was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

dice todd howard — Todd Howard, creator of Skyrim, accepted the award for game of the year.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.